Jagdish Mittal

Jagdish Mittal is an artist, historian, collector and scholar, often called the grand old man of Indian art. He gained his art education from Shantiniketan where he met his wife Kamala, a fellow artist. They travelled widely collecting art and eventually settled in Hyderabad in 1951. His interest in collecting art has translated into conserving and preserving the art heritage of India. In 1976, he created the ‘Jagdish and Kamala Mittal Museum of Indian Art’ in Hyderabad.

ESSAYS

Graphic Art of the Bengal School

by Jagdish Mittal

Published in Lalit Kala Contemporary, volume 1, June 1962, pp.70-72

The various graphic arts like woodcut, engraving, etching and lithograph - have acquired increasing importance among artists and art-lovers from the time of Renaissance in Europe.

Caricature and the Comic in Ancient Indian Art

by Jagdish Mittal

Caricature in art is a "grotesque and ludicrous representation of persons or things by exaggeration of their most characteristic or striking features." It appeals to the eye more directly than any other art does. In the West today, it is considered a serious type of pictorial art, although